A free enterprise economic system is an economic system where buyers and sellers make the economic decisions in a society. A free enterprise economic system is also called market enterprise or it is sometimes referred to as capitalism. All of these terms refer to the same ideas about economic decisions. Although there is government involvement in free enterprise economic systems, the level of involvement differs than that of a communist economic system. The government's involvement in a free enterprise economic system is sometimes referred to as The Invisible Hand.

Scroll over the following symbols to see how each plays a role in a market economy: